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Are Indian engineers your favourite coolies that will do the dirty work of keeping your systems running after you've lost interest in them ?

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Isn't that were US companies are outsourcing to? Why would Google use expensive Silicon Valley-engineers to do bugfixes on a product they'd rather cancel? Are you denying there's a price difference?

I can tell you that I am going through the experience for the 3rd time now of my entire team being let go in favor for engineers in India.

So far it seems to be like this.

1) Have a big spin up in the US. Create a new product in 1 year or less. 2) Stabilize the product over the 2nd year. 3) Slowly lay off US engineers and support teams in favor for guys in India.

Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with Indian engineers. The problem seems to be management cares about headcount and not quality. It would be one thing if we were being replaced by better engineers, but that is not the case.

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